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House Bill 1345




    Florida House of Representatives - 1997                HB 1345

        By Representatives Melvin, Culp and D. Prewitt






  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to public food service

  3         establishments; amending s. 509.032, F.S.;

  4         providing that certain rules adopted by the

  5         Division of Hotels and Restaurants shall

  6         provide flexibility and alternative methods of

  7         achieving food protection and minimizing hand

  8         contact with foods whenever practical;

  9         providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Paragraph (d) of subsection (2) of section

14  509.032, Florida Statutes, 1996 Supplement, is amended to

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16         509.032  Duties.--

17         (2)  INSPECTION OF PREMISES.--

18         (d)  The division shall adopt and enforce sanitation

19  rules consistent with law to ensure the protection of the

20  public from food-borne illness in those establishments

21  licensed under this chapter.  These rules shall provide the

22  standards and requirements for obtaining, storing, preparing,

23  processing, serving, or displaying food in public food service

24  establishments, approving public food service establishment

25  facility plans, conducting necessary public food service

26  establishment inspections, cooperating and coordinating with

27  the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services in

28  epidemiological investigations, and initiating enforcement

29  actions, and for other such responsibilities deemed necessary

30  by the division.  Such rules shall provide flexibility and

31  alternative methods of achieving food protection, including

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  1  alternative time and temperature combinations for cooking

  2  foods that achieve equivalent lethality, and minimizing hand

  3  contact with foods whenever practical.

  4         Section 2.  This act shall take effect October 1, 1997.

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  7                          HOUSE SUMMARY

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      Provides that rules of the Division of Hotels and
  9    Restaurants of the Department of Business and
      Professional Regulation with respect to sanitation shall
10    provide flexibility and alternative methods of achieving
      food protection, including alternative time and
11    temperature combinations for cooking foods that achieve
      equivalent lethality, and minimizing hand contact with
12    foods whenever practical.

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